Unique to Tibetan Buddhism, Thangkas are paintings or embroidered scrolls made of fabrics like silk and cotton. Usually found in family altars, monsateries and carried by Buddhist monks for ceremonies. Thangkas portrays anything from Buddhas, their lives, great masters and mandalas. Kubera also known as Jhambala and Vaisravana is identified with jewel-spewing mongoose. He is the God of wealth and the guardian of the North.